Warm and Cool Homes

Warm and Cool Homes

Building a Healthy, Comfy, Net-Zero Home You'll Want to Live in Forever

Warm and Cool Homes is a tour through some of New Hampshire's best high-performance homes — deep energy retrofits and new builds that stay comfortable through brutal winters and hot summers without burning through fossil fuels or budgets.

Each chapter profiles a real home and the people who built or retrofitted it — what they did, why they did it, what it cost, and what it's like to actually live there. Along the way, the book breaks down the building science behind insulation and air sealing, heat pumps, solar, and ventilation in plain language, no engineering degree required.

This isn't a book for contractors only. It's for homeowners weighing a renovation, anyone building new, and the just-curious who want to understand what a truly comfortable, net-zero home actually takes.

Every home in the book has a companion video walkthrough — free to watch, no purchase necessary. Look for the Video Resources link at the top of this site.

WHAT'S INSIDE

•  Insulation and air sealing that actually work

•  Heat pumps and other all-electric heating and cooling

•  Solar and battery storage, and how the math really works

•  Ventilation and indoor air quality in a tightly sealed home

•  Real costs, real payback, and what homeowners wish they'd known going in

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wes Golomb has spent 34 years teaching energy and sustainability at the college level, and more than four decades as an environmental advocate. In 1980, he became the second certified energy auditor in New Hampshire and opened Warm Homes, an energy auditing and retrofit business — the same hands-on experience that shaped this book. He lives in Deerfield, New Hampshire, where he chairs the town's Energy Committee.